I’m a biträdande universitetslektor (≈assistant professor) in philosophy at Uppsala Universitet. Before this, I completed a Humboldt fellowship at the Universität Hamburg, was an aesthetics teaching postdoc and instructor at the University of Auburn, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow directing the Art & Ethics project at the University of Southampton, and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM. I completed my PhD at the University of Michigan in 2016.
I grew up in both the South of England and in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Later, I studied philosophy at the University of Sheffield and returned there to complete an MA following a year teaching English in Valencia, Spain.
I’m married to Fown (pronunciation: ‘phone’) with whom I have three children: Katharina, Kaspar, and Axel. We have two dogs: Beverly and Matilda.
As for pronouncing my name, it depends a bit. For the anglophone, my full name rhymes with ‘pills, tennis, beer’, which sounds like a fun time. I go by ‘Nils’.
In other European languages in which ‘Nils’ is less exotic, the usual pronunciation prevails. How to render ‘Stear’ in German remains unsettled; Schtär is a frontrunner. In other languages? Your guess is as good as mine.
Email: nstear@umich.edu
CV: Click here.
Nils-Hennes Stear 